“LLMC, through its partnership with CRL, recently completed the digitization of the full set of historical New York state Senate and Assembly Journals. This further expands the LLMC-Digital collection of U.S. state and Canadian provincial legislative journals begun as a targeted initiative four years ago.LLMC’s coverage for New York now extends as far back as 1695 with the Journal of the House of Representatives for His Majestie’s Province of New York in America.” (via CRL)

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March 11, 2016Comments Off on LLMC Completes Digitization of New York State Legislative JournalsCRL, LLMC

“We’re delighted to announce that Stanford Libraries is now a member of the Center for Research Libraries – Global Forum Network. This greatly expands the gamut of research materials that are available to the entire Stanford community. CRL is a partnership of more than 275 university, college, and independent research libraries. For 60-plus years CRL has acquired and preserved newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources, and made them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.” (via Stanford University Libraries)

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October 11, 2013Comments Off on Stanford Libraries join the Center for Research LibrariesCRL, Stanford University

“The British Library and the Center for Research Libraries have formed a path-breaking partnership to digitize and make accessible historical news content from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America of interest to scholars at UK and North American universities. This partnership will dramatically expand and enrich the digitized collections in the World Newspaper Archive, an initiative by North American research libraries and Readex (a division of NewsBank) to preserve and provide persistent access to historical newspapers from around the globe.” (via Center for Research Libraries)

“The Center for Research Libraries has published the findings of its preservation audit, certifying Scholars Portal as a trustworthy digital repository for e-journal content. The audit, guided by CRL’s Certification Advisory Panel, assessed the Canadian repository’s compliance with criteria in the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC ) checklist, rating the repository at a high level of compliance in all three categories of criteria: organizational infrastructure, digital object management, and technical infrastructure. The audit report identifies noteworthy features of Scholars Portal that should be of interest to its constituent research libraries.”